... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of... The Pamphleteer - Page 541edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...gain to the creditor; for, of the multitude who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small parr is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. JOHNSOK. Idler, vol, ip 121. THOSE who made the laws of imprisonment for debt, have apparently supposed,... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; anotherj that his wife looked above her neighbours, and his children went in silk clothes to the dancingschool;... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes av/ay something from the public stock. The confinement,...expectation. If those, who thus rigorously exercise the powerwhich the law has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...small part is suspected of any fradalent act by which they retain what belongs to others'. The r' st are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity...revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. ' . . " Idler', vol. i, p. nr. Since poverty is punished among us as a crime, ' it ought, at least,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...and every being that continues lo be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the publick stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; and another, that his wife looked above her neighbours and his children went in silk clothes to the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the publick stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the...those who thus rigorously exercise the power which the luw has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they know to be unable... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multi tudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small...acrimony of disappointed expectation. If those, who thus rigouronsly exercise the power which the law has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue... | |
| William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...it requires, must gradually decay; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock; " The...asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they VOL. 2. Y know to be unable to pay them one will answer, tbat his debtor once lived better than himself;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...they continue to imprison those whom they know to he unable to pay them : one will answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; another, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...it acquires, must gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement,...continue to imprison those whom they know to be unable to pay4hem one will answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself ; another, that his wife looked... | |
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